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I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.

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Don King
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 20
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Michael seems to have lost his values temporarily. He just has to be worked with, disciplined and talked to and given some tender loving care and understanding.
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America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.
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People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.
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There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay my overheads, you know. I invest a lot of money developing a fighter and then I deserve to reap the rewards.
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I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him.
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I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.
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I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it.
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If he says he has the pizzazz and the sizzle, I have the steak, and substance. I've made more money than he's made. I've made bigger deals than he's made, when he's got the complexion to get the protection.
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Don King is a damn sleezebag. King is nothing but a strong-arm man. He has taken his gangsterism and put it into boxing.
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I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.
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Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
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If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
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Don't worry about appeasing the establishment. Don't acquiesce to an alleged power. Be with the people, not the establishment. The guy that's sitting next to you, that's who you got to beware. Judas was sitting right next to Jesus.
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You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible.
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There's only one rule anyone connected with boxing must keep in mind - everything you here in boxing is a lie.
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Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.
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From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.
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If Trump were a boxer, he'd be Muhammad Ali. Because he's going to win. He's going to run his mouth, he's going to talk a lot and he's going to win. And you ain't going to know which way he's going. You had the Louisville Lip, he'd be the New York Lip!
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It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.
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When I came into boxing, when it was more out of control, no fighters got an opportunity to fight. I came in: everybody got an opportunity to make a living in America.
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